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Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.

Elliott Erwitt

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Elliott Erwitt
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: July 26
Film Director
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When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and go about my business, and if I am going anywhere interesting I take my camera along.
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To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
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If you keep your cool, you'll get everything.
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I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.
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You don't study photography, you just do it.
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Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.
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In those simpler days, you could just take pictures of movie stars and show them the way they were, as normal human beings. And if I felt part of any movement at the time, it was just to do that - to be journalistic and photograph what is, rather than what is made up.
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The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published.
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It's just seeing - at least the photography I care about. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Anyone can learn how to develop. It's how you organize what you see into a picture.
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Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist.
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I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.
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A picture should be looked at - not talked about.
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I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good.
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The thing is that when you don't carry a camera, that's when you see pictures in particular, or at least that's when you think you see pictures in particular. When you do carry it, if you do see one on the occasion that you do, you can take it.
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I wasn't imposing my presence on anyone, which is very important for a would- be journalist. I stayed back. Always let people be themselves.
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There's no great mystique to photography. A lot of photographers like to put their hands up to their forehead and tell you how they've suffered and so forth. Well, I just rent a car and drive to the place and take the pictures.
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Everybody's got to do something... I'd been on my own since an early age and I thought I better find something to do to buy biscuits and stuff. From high school onwards I was earning my way with photography, one way or another, working in darkrooms and taking pictures of weddings, neighbors' children and so on.
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Working myself into a position of total versatility, so that I can do anything I want to do at the time I want to do it. Whether I do it or not is another question.
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I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just fine observation.
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Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.
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